YouTube trailer that's no longer available thanks to a copyright claim by ZeniMax Media is posted on Kotaku (copyrights be damned), showing off over 20 minutes of the beginning of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Bethesda's upcoming RPG sequel. The clip includes the opening cinematic, intro sequence, character creation, and more, so it definitely should be avoided by those who don't want to spoil the experience when Skyrim is released a week from Friday.

In all honesty though....Oblivion doesn't look that bad....there are just a few (more than one would think) around here that harp on gfx, but then bitch the game doesn't have enough content.....the flip floppers that they are.

I would take a Zelda looking game any day of the week just to have vast amounts of CONTENT!

Beamer, personally I think it's more the fact that Mainstream Media believes there is no console piracy. Since m$, other publisher and drm companies feed them info only about PC piracy to protect console and use it as a profit motive. It's a much larger scale on console they can download it before it's release and can literally just rent it and copy it.

foot wrote on Nov 1, 2011, 07:58:Looks like they haven't improved combat much. The animations are still terrible.

So what everyone here is saying is that they value graphics over gameplay?

No, Beamer. What SOME people are saying is that they value graphics over gameplay. There's like three people complaining about the animations in a thread with 70+ posts. How does this translate to EVERYONE?

Creston

Where's the emoticon for banging my head against the desk?

How about you find an emoticon that makes you stop shoving everyone in the same pigeonhole all the time?

Edit : Not really even sure why people complain about the animations so much. Is it Prince of Persia? No.

foot wrote on Nov 1, 2011, 07:58:Looks like they haven't improved combat much. The animations are still terrible.

So what everyone here is saying is that they value graphics over gameplay?

No, Beamer. What SOME people are saying is that they value graphics over gameplay. There's like three people complaining about the animations in a thread with 70+ posts. How does this translate to EVERYONE?

foot wrote on Nov 1, 2011, 07:58:Looks like they haven't improved combat much. The animations are still terrible.

So what everyone here is saying is that they value graphics over gameplay?

No, Beamer. What SOME people are saying is that they value graphics over gameplay. There's like three people complaining about the animations in a thread with 70+ posts. How does this translate to EVERYONE?

Doma wrote on Nov 1, 2011, 11:53:haha! oh wow! look what just leaked for the 360!

The Elder Scrolls V : Skyrim FULL RETAIL XGD3 0800 USA-PAL-P2P

Yeah, still don't get why this is news to people. Games leak for the 360 all the time. But they do not reach a very wide audience, particularly relative to their sales.

With PC games you just need to download a game and you're good to go. Most often you get everything you would have if you purchased.With 360 games you need to actually open and solder your device without ruining it. You're then totally cut off from all online features, from downloading DLC to achievements to online play. Not just in that game but in all games.

360 piracy exists but it is extremely minimal relative to PC piracy, so it isn't a huge concern to developers that are busy counting their money. PC piracy exists but is enormous and for any given game you most likely have more copies downloaded then sold. This leads to developers thinking about what could have been.

everyone wrote on Nov 1, 2011, 07:01:It wasn't in the video, but there's a few pictures knocking around the net. It's not 2D anymore. The game zooms out to a 3D overview with mountains and clouds and junk. I don't know how useable it is, but it looks pretty.

Thanks everyone.

I did found another set of videos and watched again. I'm surprised they didn't show map something they KNOW the community wanted changed. But I guess they have shown the whole Inventory system is changed, hopefully the map will be functional as well as *pretty*.

The E3 demo video has map footage. It's a literal birdview; ingame graphics. You can fast-travel which consists of literally zooming in on the location, if I remeber correctly. It's pretty cool!

xXBatmanXx wrote on Nov 1, 2011, 09:20:Gets tiring to read posts of people who argue just for the sake of arguing......kind of sad when you put some of their posts together on the larger threads, that they could actually be arguiing with themselves....isn't even election time and already flipfloppin....

That's the point I alluded to, although you may be talking about me.In one thread we'll have people complaining about how there's too much emphasis on graphics instead of good gameplay, and the same people come into this thread and complain that this massive open world with a ton to do has too stiff animations.

Gets tiring to read posts of people who argue just for the sake of arguing......kind of sad when you put some of their posts together on the larger threads, that they could actually be arguiing with themselves....isn't even election time and already flipfloppin....

everyone wrote on Nov 1, 2011, 07:01:It wasn't in the video, but there's a few pictures knocking around the net. It's not 2D anymore. The game zooms out to a 3D overview with mountains and clouds and junk. I don't know how useable it is, but it looks pretty.

Thanks everyone.

I did found another set of videos and watched again. I'm surprised they didn't show map something they KNOW the community wanted changed. But I guess they have shown the whole Inventory system is changed, hopefully the map will be functional as well as *pretty*.

Acleacius wrote on Oct 31, 2011, 23:38:If anyone has it, do we ever get to see the map? Hoping it's not the horrid version we had in Oblivion. Where we were repeatedly forced to drag the map.

It wasn't in the video, but there's a few pictures knocking around the net. It's not 2D anymore. The game zooms out to a 3D overview with mountains and clouds and junk. I don't know how useable it is, but it looks pretty.